Aboriginal studies

Links

Culture and history

Australian Aboriginal mythology (Wikipedia)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages

Australian Indigenous cultural heritage (culture.gov.au)

Australian history - selected websites (National Library of Australia)

Dreaming (culture.gov.au)

Indigenous Australia - dreamtime or dreaming (Australian Museum)

Indigenous Australia - timeline (Australian Museum)

Indigenous records ( National Archives)

Koori history website

Map of Aboriginal Australia (David Horton)

National Indigenous Radio Service

Tribal boundaries in Aboriginal Australia (Norman B Tindale 1974)

Education

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education - Federal and State Government sites

Aboriginal Education Council NSW

Services for Indigenous students (NSI)

Guidelines and protocols for NSW Public schools and TAFE NSW institutes:

• Aboriginal Education and Training Policy
• Welcome to country and acknowledgement of country [PDF]

Health

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health

Reconciliation

Lore of the land - Reconciling spirit & places in Australia's history

Reconciliation (culture.gov.au)

Reconciliation Australia

General

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resource links (AIATSIS)

Aboriginal Australian (State Library NSW)

Aboriginal studies - TAFE Studylinks

Indigenous Australia (Aussie Educator)

Indigenous Portals

Directories and databases

AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database

Australian Indigenous Index

Index to the Koori Mail, that focuses on the Indigenous people of Australia, from May 1991 to date. It is also an index to biographical information from various magazines.

Indigenous art centres directory

Organisations & museums

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Australian Museum - Indigenous Australia exhibition

Explores Aboriginal Australia through storytelling, cultures and histories. This site provides resources for teaching and studying.

Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

NSW Aboriginal Land Council

Government information

Aboriginal business

Aboriginal People and Housing Assistance (NSW)

AIATSIS Indigenous facilitation and mediation

Department of Aboriginal Affairs (NSW)

Government Services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

Indigenous communities and the environment

Indigenous Art, culture and languages

NSW Aboriginal Housing Office

Aboriginal land and native title

AIATSIS Native Title research unit

Eddie Mabo - bibliographical note

Eddie Mabo - biography by his daughter Gail

Indigenous Land Corporation

National Native Title Tribunal

Native Title Act 1993

Native Title Amendment Act 1998

Native Title - selected legislation

Native Title InfoBase

Native Title representative bodies

Legislation and statistics

Aboriginal Justice Advisory Council

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commission

Indigenous people and the law - Parliamentary Library

Indigenous Statistics - Australian Bureau of Statistics

Law Reform Commission NSW - Aboriginal customary law

Legal Research Links

Compiled by the High Court of Australia provides access to resources such as the Australian legal information gateway WebLaw including Native Title resources and the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) which provides Indigenous law resources and the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Archive.

eJournals, eBooks & other eResources

eJournals

Freely available eJournals and news services

• Australian review of public affairs
• Indigenous law bulletin
• National indigenous times
• Journal of population research

EBSCOhost

Click the link to ANZRC or one of the selected journals. Log in using your DET username and password.

ANZRC

• ACH: the journal of history of culture in Australia

• Australian Aboriginal studies
• Oceania

Gale Cengage Learning

Log in to Gale databases using your DET username and password. Once you have logged into the databases, click on 'Publication Search' and type in the name of the journal as listed in the following selection:

• Australian Aboriginal studies
• Australian journal of anthropology
• Australian journal of politics and history

eBooks

Free eBooks

Free historical eBooks available digitised in the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg of Australia. These texts may not reflect current view points.

• Australian legendary tales - Folklore of the Noongahburrahs
• Kámilarói, and other Australian languages (1875)
• Family chain: marriage and relationships of native Australian tribes (1914)
• Customs and traditions of the aboriginal natives of North Western Australia (1901)

NetLibrary

Click the link of the example and then click on URL. Log in using your DET username and password.

• Fighting women: anger and aggression in Aboriginal Australia

eReference

Free eReference

• Aboriginal names/words and their meanings

Oxford Art Online

Log in to Oxford Art Online using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username.

• Grove Art Online (e.g. Culture and traditional art forms of Aboriginal Australia)

Oxford Reference Online

Log in to Oxford Reference Online using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username. Once you have logged into the database, click on Subjects & Books and go to Politics & Social Sciences, History etc.

• Oxford companion to Australian history
• Oxford companion to Australian literature
• Oxford companion to Australian politics
• Oxford companion to the High Court of Australia (Includes reference information about Native Title and Eddie Mabo)

Online videos

Free online videos and animations

• Dust echoes - animated dreamtime stories by ABC
• ABC Indigenous - Aboriginal Australians documentaries
• Remembering Eddie Mabo

TVNews

Click the link to TVNews or one of the selected programs. Log in using your DET username and password.

• Living black
• Message stick

Training toolboxes (Australian Flexible Learning Framework)

Cultural resource management

Help from within: a conference for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers

Indigenous ecotourism (CD only - contact your librarian)

Interactive ochre

Learning about Native Title

Click on 'URL' at the end of the description to access these training packages which contain tutorials, quizzes and resources for your course. From home, log in using your DET username and password. You can view or download these resources. A CD-ROM of the packages may be available at your TAFE library.

Name

Description

Access

Freely available

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO's searchable database provides full text, and index access to many local and international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Most general subjects are covered including Aboriginal studies.

DET username and password required.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Nursing database

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature, including Aboriginal health.

DET username and password required.

The Facts on File is a set of online reference databases designed to suit the reference requirements of secondary schools, TAFE colleges and undergraduate research libraries.  Each database offers hyperlinked full-text records, images, maps, time-lines, citation information and more. Titles include: 

• Ancient and Medieval History Online (incl. videos)
• Modern World History Online (incl. videos)
• Health Reference Centre (incl. videos)
• Bloom’s Literary Reference Online
• Issues & Controversies

Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).

Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith).

Gale databases provide access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics. The sub-collection General OneFile includes over 6,300 full-text titles and 400 newspaper services (a total of more than 11,000 titles). Also included in the subscription is the 'General Reference Centre Gold'. Search this database for information on Aboriginal studies.

DET username and password required.

Oxford Art Online

This innovative new gateway into art research and access point for Oxford art reference subscriptions including Aboriginal art. Publications provided are:

• Grove Art Online
• Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
• The Oxford Companion to Western Art
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms

Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).

Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith).

A searchable collection of 175+ key Oxford reference publications covering 25 subject areas. Includes bilingual dictionaries, encyclopaedias, subject reference, quotations, maps & illustrations and 42 x 20th century timelines.

Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).

Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith).

DET username and password required.

TVNews indexes and abstracts Australian news items, current affairs and documentaries from free-to-air networks since 2007. You can download video content straight to your desktop or flash drive. Most programs are available the next working day. Coverage includes: Australian story, Behind the news, 60 minutes, Four corners, Lateline, Living Black, Message Stick, People Dimensions and all the major news broadcasts.

DET username and password required.